PSA Project

A PSA (Public Service Announcement) is a way of advertising in Television, Radio, or any other kind of media. PSA are in someway especial, because instead of trying to sale a product to the audience, they are design to teach the public a message or theme of the problems the world is going on. They accomplish this, with the simulation of actions, exposing things that affect the opinion of the people, or by letting know the public an issue. As you can see, PSA's are very different to regular advertising in the structure they have, but at the same time they are advertising.

For this project, my first option to work with is Pedro. It is pretty simple why I have chosen to work with him, we both life en Nuevo Vallarta. This will eventually help when we have to do the work. Also, Pedro and me have the same interests, we like the same things and we have similar ideas; making the work easier to accomplish. My second choice is Jorge, eventhoug we don't life in the same colony, I know I am able to work with him in a peaceful manner, because we both think alike. My final choice will have to be, Mahonry. As a matter a fact, I life close to him (Nuevo Vallarta). I know some times we have our differences, but still we both can "bend" and obtain a good product.

List for Ideas

1. Drinking and Driving
2. Pollution of the Oceans and Land
3. Safe Sex
4. Protection of Endangered Species
   
5. Anorexia and Bulimia

Drinking and Driving: I will show this topic, in a scenario of a AA meeting. An irresponsible adult is talking about his story, that he killed a family because he was drinking and driven. Then, the video will change to the actual scence. To end, I, my partner or both will apear and give the message.
Pollution of the Oceans and Land: This is going to be a very easy topic, you can show strong pollution images that show what can happen to our world. At the end, we will appear and mention how we can fix this horrible problem.
Safe Sex: This is probobly a very good theme to show. We can record ourselves showing multiple ways of having safe sex. I am not talking about sexual images, instead of showing anti-conception means like the pill, condom and other stuff.

Paco.

Commercials from Super Bowl and Classmates

One of the advantages of the Super Bowl, is not only watching what promisses to be a great football match, but it's also seeing how major companies spend millions of dollars in the advertisement of their products. Every year, they surprise us more and more. For this Super Bowl, a lot of good commercials where broadcast in television, and others not so good. My favorite commercial of this year's Super Bowl was definitely the Volkswagen–2011–Darth Vader (http://www.superbowl-commercials.org/2873.html) This commercial has it everything, great them, great music, great actor, it's in tune with the music, it creates a feeling in the spectator of sweetness. The little kid that is portrayed, plays the role of Darth Vader better than the actual actor in the movies of Star Wars. Another commercial that I enjoyed was the Audi A8 (http://www.superbowl-commercials.org/2997.html). The commercial is pretty simple, but still you can notice big bugs invested in it. It's simple, it shows how an old guy and a young adult try to escape from a luxury old fashion prison, that actually represents old luxury vehicles. The commercial, finishes when te scape from the prisson, however the old guy goes into a Classical Luxury car and returns to the prison; whereas, the young guy drives in an Audi A8. My third favorite comercial was, Pug Attack (http://www.superbowl-commercials.org/2985.html) by Doritos Company. This commercial shows the power of Doritos, which makes a Pug Dog defeat a teasing human and obtain the Doritos. It's humorous, and makes a point. There for making it a good commercial. All the years, we can observe great commercial, but also really bad commercials! One of the worst commercial of this years Super Bowl was a Compact Car Commercial from Hyundai (http://www.superbowl-commercials.org/3101.html). It has no rhythm, no emotions, its simply images with some text. To make it better, I will add "spiced up" music and let the car show its potencial, its speed and other virtues.
In our computer class, we did some commercials. The best commercial from the class was definitely, Jorge's. His commercial is funny, entertaining, has a good music that is in coordination with the topic, it transmits the message correctly. For me, it was simply the perfection from the class. You could notice in the final results that he actually planed it, and had fun doing it. Cheers to Jorge, and my congratulations for his great job!

Paco Carmona.

Commercial For The 2010 Slingshot Lunacy